R Tutorial

An introduction to R

Introduction

This tutorial is will introduce the reader to , a free, open-source statistical computing environment often used with RStudio, a integrated development environment for .

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Calculator

can be used as a super awesome calculator

# 5 + 3 = 8
5 + 3

## [1] 8

# 24 / (1 + 2) = 8
24 / (1 + 2)

## [1] 8

# 2 * 2 * 2 = 8
2^3

## [1] 8

# 8 * 8 = 64
sqrt(64)

## [1] 8

# -log10(0.05 / 5000000) = 8
-log10(0.05 / 5000000)

## [1] 8

Functions

has many useful built in functions

1:10

##  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

as.character(1:10)

##  [1] "1"  "2"  "3"  "4"  "5"  "6"  "7"  "8"  "9"  "10"

rep(1:2, times = 5)

##  [1] 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2

rep(1:5, times = 2)

##  [1] 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5

rep(1:5, each = 2)

##  [1] 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5

rep(1:5, length.out = 7)

## [1] 1 2 3 4 5 1 2

seq(5, 50, by = 5)

##  [1]  5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50

seq(5, 50, length.out = 5)

## [1]  5.00 16.25 27.50 38.75 50.00

paste(1:10, 20:30, sep = "-")

##  [1] "1-20"  "2-21"  "3-22"  "4-23"  "5-24"  "6-25"  "7-26"  "8-27"  "9-28"  "10-29" "1-30"

paste(1:10, collapse = "-")

## [1] "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10"

paste0("x", 1:10)

##  [1] "x1"  "x2"  "x3"  "x4"  "x5"  "x6"  "x7"  "x8"  "x9"  "x10"

min(1:10)

## [1] 1

max(1:10)

## [1] 10

range(1:10)

## [1]  1 10

mean(1:10)

## [1] 5.5

sd(1:10)

## [1] 3.02765

Custom Functions

Users can also create their own functions

customFunction1 <- function(x, y) {
  z <- 100 * x / (x + y)
  paste(z, "%")
}
customFunction1(x = 10, y = 90)

## [1] "10 %"

customFunction2 <- function(x) {
  mymin <- mean(x - sd(x))
  mymax <- mean(x) + sd(x)
  print(paste("Min =", mymin))
  print(paste("Max =", mymax))
}
customFunction2(x = 1:10)

## [1] "Min = 2.47234964590251"
## [1] "Max = 8.52765035409749"

`for` loops and `if` `else` statements

xx <- NULL #creates and empty object
for(i in 1:10) {
  xx[i] <- i*3
}
xx

##  [1]  3  6  9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30

xx %% 2 #gives the remainder when divided by 2

##  [1] 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

for(i in 1:length(xx)) {
  if((xx[i] %% 2) == 0) {
    print(paste(xx[i],"is Even"))
  } else { 
      print(paste(xx[i],"is Odd")) 
    }
}

## [1] "3 is Odd"
## [1] "6 is Even"
## [1] "9 is Odd"
## [1] "12 is Even"
## [1] "15 is Odd"
## [1] "18 is Even"
## [1] "21 is Odd"
## [1] "24 is Even"
## [1] "27 is Odd"
## [1] "30 is Even"

# or
ifelse(xx %% 2 == 0, "Even", "Odd")

##  [1] "Odd"  "Even" "Odd"  "Even" "Odd"  "Even" "Odd"  "Even" "Odd"  "Even"

paste(xx, ifelse(xx %% 2 == 0, "is Even", "is Odd"))

##  [1] "3 is Odd"   "6 is Even"  "9 is Odd"   "12 is Even" "15 is Odd"  "18 is Even" "21 is Odd"  "24 is Even" "27 is Odd"  "30 is Even"

Objects

Information can be stored in user defined objects, in multiple forms:

c(): a string of values
matrix(): a two dimensional matrix in one format
data.frame(): a two dimensional matrix where each column can be a different format
list():

A string…

xc <- 1:10
xc

##  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

xc <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)
xc

##  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

A matrix…

xm <- matrix(1:100, nrow = 10, ncol = 10, byrow = T)
xm

##       [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10]
##  [1,]    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10
##  [2,]   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19    20
##  [3,]   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29    30
##  [4,]   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39    40
##  [5,]   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49    50
##  [6,]   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59    60
##  [7,]   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69    70
##  [8,]   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79    80
##  [9,]   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89    90
## [10,]   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100

xm <- matrix(1:100, nrow = 10, ncol = 10, byrow = F)
xm

##       [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10]
##  [1,]    1   11   21   31   41   51   61   71   81    91
##  [2,]    2   12   22   32   42   52   62   72   82    92
##  [3,]    3   13   23   33   43   53   63   73   83    93
##  [4,]    4   14   24   34   44   54   64   74   84    94
##  [5,]    5   15   25   35   45   55   65   75   85    95
##  [6,]    6   16   26   36   46   56   66   76   86    96
##  [7,]    7   17   27   37   47   57   67   77   87    97
##  [8,]    8   18   28   38   48   58   68   78   88    98
##  [9,]    9   19   29   39   49   59   69   79   89    99
## [10,]   10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90   100

A data frame…

xd <- data.frame(
  x1 = c("aa","bb","cc","dd","ee",
         "ff","gg","hh","ii","jj"),
  x2 = 1:10,
  x3 = c(1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3),
  x4 = rep(c(1,2), times = 5),
  x5 = rep(1:5, times = 2),
  x6 = rep(1:5, each = 2),
  x7 = seq(5, 50, by = 5),
  x8 = log10(1:10),
  x9 = (1:10)^3,
  x10 = c(T,T,T,F,F,T,T,F,F,F)
)
xd

##    x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7        x8   x9   x10
## 1  aa  1  1  1  1  1  5 0.0000000    1  TRUE
## 2  bb  2  1  2  2  1 10 0.3010300    8  TRUE
## 3  cc  3  1  1  3  2 15 0.4771213   27  TRUE
## 4  dd  4  1  2  4  2 20 0.6020600   64 FALSE
## 5  ee  5  1  1  5  3 25 0.6989700  125 FALSE
## 6  ff  6  2  2  1  3 30 0.7781513  216  TRUE
## 7  gg  7  2  1  2  4 35 0.8450980  343  TRUE
## 8  hh  8  2  2  3  4 40 0.9030900  512 FALSE
## 9  ii  9  3  1  4  5 45 0.9542425  729 FALSE
## 10 jj 10  3  2  5  5 50 1.0000000 1000 FALSE

A list…

xl <- list(xc, xm, xd)
xl[[1]]

##  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

xl[[2]]

##       [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10]
##  [1,]    1   11   21   31   41   51   61   71   81    91
##  [2,]    2   12   22   32   42   52   62   72   82    92
##  [3,]    3   13   23   33   43   53   63   73   83    93
##  [4,]    4   14   24   34   44   54   64   74   84    94
##  [5,]    5   15   25   35   45   55   65   75   85    95
##  [6,]    6   16   26   36   46   56   66   76   86    96
##  [7,]    7   17   27   37   47   57   67   77   87    97
##  [8,]    8   18   28   38   48   58   68   78   88    98
##  [9,]    9   19   29   39   49   59   69   79   89    99
## [10,]   10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90   100

xl[[3]]

##    x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7        x8   x9   x10
## 1  aa  1  1  1  1  1  5 0.0000000    1  TRUE
## 2  bb  2  1  2  2  1 10 0.3010300    8  TRUE
## 3  cc  3  1  1  3  2 15 0.4771213   27  TRUE
## 4  dd  4  1  2  4  2 20 0.6020600   64 FALSE
## 5  ee  5  1  1  5  3 25 0.6989700  125 FALSE
## 6  ff  6  2  2  1  3 30 0.7781513  216  TRUE
## 7  gg  7  2  1  2  4 35 0.8450980  343  TRUE
## 8  hh  8  2  2  3  4 40 0.9030900  512 FALSE
## 9  ii  9  3  1  4  5 45 0.9542425  729 FALSE
## 10 jj 10  3  2  5  5 50 1.0000000 1000 FALSE

Selecting Data

xc[5] # 5th element in xc

## [1] 5

xd$x3[5] # 5th element in col "x3"

## [1] 1

xd[5,"x3"] # row 5, col "x3"

## [1] 1

xd$x3 # all of col "x3"

##  [1] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3

xd[,"x3"] # all rows, col "x3"

##  [1] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3

xd[3,] # row 3, all cols

##   x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7        x8 x9  x10
## 3 cc  3  1  1  3  2 15 0.4771213 27 TRUE

xd[c(2,4),c("x4","x5")] # rows 2 & 4, cols "x4" & "x5"

##   x4 x5
## 2  2  2
## 4  2  4

xl[[3]]$x1 # 3rd object in the list, col "x1

##  [1] "aa" "bb" "cc" "dd" "ee" "ff" "gg" "hh" "ii" "jj"

regexpr

xx <- data.frame(Name = c("Item 1 (detail 1)",
                          "Item 20 (detail 20)",
                          "Item 300 (detail 300)"),
                 Item = NA,
                 Detail = NA)
xx$Detail <- substr(xx$Name, regexpr("\\(", xx$Name)+1, regexpr("\\)", xx$Name)-1)
xx$Item <- substr(xx$Name, 1, regexpr("\\(", xx$Name)-2)
xx

##                    Name     Item     Detail
## 1     Item 1 (detail 1)   Item 1   detail 1
## 2   Item 20 (detail 20)  Item 20  detail 20
## 3 Item 300 (detail 300) Item 300 detail 300

Data Formats

Data can also be saved in many formats:

numeric
integer
character
factor
logical

xd$x3 <- as.character(xd$x3)
xd$x3

##  [1] "1" "1" "1" "1" "1" "2" "2" "2" "3" "3"

xd$x3 <- as.numeric(xd$x3)
xd$x3

##  [1] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3

xd$x3 <- as.factor(xd$x3)
xd$x3

##  [1] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3
## Levels: 1 2 3

xd$x3 <- factor(xd$x3, levels = c("3","2","1"))
xd$x3

##  [1] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3
## Levels: 3 2 1

xd$x10

##  [1]  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE

as.numeric(xd$x10) # TRUE = 1, FALSE = 0

##  [1] 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0

sum(xd$x10)

## [1] 5

Internal structure of an object can be checked with str()

str(xc) # c()

##  num [1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

str(xm) # matrix()

##  int [1:10, 1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...

str(xd) # data.frame()

## 'data.frame':    10 obs. of  10 variables:
##  $ x1 : chr  "aa" "bb" "cc" "dd" ...
##  $ x2 : int  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
##  $ x3 : Factor w/ 3 levels "3","2","1": 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1
##  $ x4 : num  1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
##  $ x5 : int  1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
##  $ x6 : int  1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5
##  $ x7 : num  5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
##  $ x8 : num  0 0.301 0.477 0.602 0.699 ...
##  $ x9 : num  1 8 27 64 125 216 343 512 729 1000
##  $ x10: logi  TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE ...

str(xl) # list()

## List of 3
##  $ : num [1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
##  $ : int [1:10, 1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
##  $ :'data.frame':    10 obs. of  10 variables:
##   ..$ x1 : chr [1:10] "aa" "bb" "cc" "dd" ...
##   ..$ x2 : int [1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
##   ..$ x3 : num [1:10] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3
##   ..$ x4 : num [1:10] 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
##   ..$ x5 : int [1:10] 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
##   ..$ x6 : int [1:10] 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5
##   ..$ x7 : num [1:10] 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
##   ..$ x8 : num [1:10] 0 0.301 0.477 0.602 0.699 ...
##   ..$ x9 : num [1:10] 1 8 27 64 125 216 343 512 729 1000
##   ..$ x10: logi [1:10] TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE ...

Packages

Additional libraries can be installed and loaded for use.

install.packages("scales")

library(scales)
xx <- data.frame(Values = 1:10)
xx$Rescaled <- rescale(x = xx$Values, to = c(1,30))
xx

##    Values  Rescaled
## 1       1  1.000000
## 2       2  4.222222
## 3       3  7.444444
## 4       4 10.666667
## 5       5 13.888889
## 6       6 17.111111
## 7       7 20.333333
## 8       8 23.555556
## 9       9 26.777778
## 10     10 30.000000

libraries can also be used without having to load them

scales::rescale(1:10, to = c(1,30))

##  [1]  1.000000  4.222222  7.444444 10.666667 13.888889 17.111111 20.333333 23.555556 26.777778 30.000000

Data Wrangling

R for Data Science - https://r4ds.had.co.nz/

xx <- data.frame(Group = c("X","X","Y","Y","Y","X","X","X","Y","Y"),
                 Data1 = 1:10, 
                 Data2 = seq(10, 100, by = 10))
xx$NewData1 <- xx$Data1 + xx$Data2
xx$NewData2 <- xx$Data1 * 1000
xx

##    Group Data1 Data2 NewData1 NewData2
## 1      X     1    10       11     1000
## 2      X     2    20       22     2000
## 3      Y     3    30       33     3000
## 4      Y     4    40       44     4000
## 5      Y     5    50       55     5000
## 6      X     6    60       66     6000
## 7      X     7    70       77     7000
## 8      X     8    80       88     8000
## 9      Y     9    90       99     9000
## 10     Y    10   100      110    10000

xx$Data1 < 5 # which are less than 5

##  [1]  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE

xx[xx$Data1 < 5,]

##   Group Data1 Data2 NewData1 NewData2
## 1     X     1    10       11     1000
## 2     X     2    20       22     2000
## 3     Y     3    30       33     3000
## 4     Y     4    40       44     4000

xx[xx$Group == "X", c("Group","Data2","NewData1")]

##   Group Data2 NewData1
## 1     X    10       11
## 2     X    20       22
## 6     X    60       66
## 7     X    70       77
## 8     X    80       88

Data wrangling with tidyverse and pipes (%>%)

library(tidyverse) # install.packages("tidyverse")
xx <- data.frame(Group = c("X","X","Y","Y","Y","Y","Y","X","X","X")) %>%
  mutate(Data1 = 1:10, 
         Data2 = seq(10, 100, by = 10),
         NewData1 = Data1 + Data2,
         NewData2 = Data1 * 1000)
xx

##    Group Data1 Data2 NewData1 NewData2
## 1      X     1    10       11     1000
## 2      X     2    20       22     2000
## 3      Y     3    30       33     3000
## 4      Y     4    40       44     4000
## 5      Y     5    50       55     5000
## 6      Y     6    60       66     6000
## 7      Y     7    70       77     7000
## 8      X     8    80       88     8000
## 9      X     9    90       99     9000
## 10     X    10   100      110    10000

filter(xx, Data1 < 5)

##   Group Data1 Data2 NewData1 NewData2
## 1     X     1    10       11     1000
## 2     X     2    20       22     2000
## 3     Y     3    30       33     3000
## 4     Y     4    40       44     4000

xx %>% filter(Data1 < 5)

##   Group Data1 Data2 NewData1 NewData2
## 1     X     1    10       11     1000
## 2     X     2    20       22     2000
## 3     Y     3    30       33     3000
## 4     Y     4    40       44     4000

xx %>% filter(Group == "X") %>% 
  select(Group, NewColName=Data2, NewData1)

##   Group NewColName NewData1
## 1     X         10       11
## 2     X         20       22
## 3     X         80       88
## 4     X         90       99
## 5     X        100      110

xs <- xx %>% 
  group_by(Group) %>% 
  summarise(Data2_mean = mean(Data2),
            Data2_sd = sd(Data2),
            NewData2_mean = mean(NewData2),
            NewData2_sd = sd(NewData2))
xs

## # A tibble: 2 × 5
##   Group Data2_mean Data2_sd NewData2_mean NewData2_sd
##   <chr>      <dbl>    <dbl>         <dbl>       <dbl>
## 1 X             60     41.8          6000       4183.
## 2 Y             50     15.8          5000       1581.

xx %>% left_join(xs, by = "Group")

##    Group Data1 Data2 NewData1 NewData2 Data2_mean Data2_sd NewData2_mean NewData2_sd
## 1      X     1    10       11     1000         60 41.83300          6000    4183.300
## 2      X     2    20       22     2000         60 41.83300          6000    4183.300
## 3      Y     3    30       33     3000         50 15.81139          5000    1581.139
## 4      Y     4    40       44     4000         50 15.81139          5000    1581.139
## 5      Y     5    50       55     5000         50 15.81139          5000    1581.139
## 6      Y     6    60       66     6000         50 15.81139          5000    1581.139
## 7      Y     7    70       77     7000         50 15.81139          5000    1581.139
## 8      X     8    80       88     8000         60 41.83300          6000    4183.300
## 9      X     9    90       99     9000         60 41.83300          6000    4183.300
## 10     X    10   100      110    10000         60 41.83300          6000    4183.300

Read/Write data

xx <- read.csv("data_r_tutorial.csv")
write.csv(xx, "data_r_tutorial.csv", row.names = F)

For excel sheets, the package readxl can be used to read in sheets of data.

library(readxl) # install.packages("readxl")
xx <- read_xlsx("data_r_tutorial.xlsx", sheet = "Data")

Tidy Data

Tutorial 1 - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tidyr/vignettes/tidy-data.html

Tutorial 2 - https://r4ds.had.co.nz/tidy-data.html

yy <- xx %>%
  group_by(Name, Location) %>%
  summarise(Mean_DTF = round(mean(DTF),1)) %>% 
  arrange(Location)
yy

## # A tibble: 9 × 3
## # Groups:   Name [3]
##   Name          Location            Mean_DTF
##   <chr>         <chr>                  <dbl>
## 1 CDC Maxim AGL Jessore, Bangladesh     86.7
## 2 ILL 618 AGL   Jessore, Bangladesh     79.3
## 3 Laird AGL     Jessore, Bangladesh     76.8
## 4 CDC Maxim AGL Metaponto, Italy       134. 
## 5 ILL 618 AGL   Metaponto, Italy       138. 
## 6 Laird AGL     Metaponto, Italy       137. 
## 7 CDC Maxim AGL Saskatoon, Canada       52.5
## 8 ILL 618 AGL   Saskatoon, Canada       47  
## 9 Laird AGL     Saskatoon, Canada       56.8

yy <- yy %>% spread(key = Location, value = Mean_DTF)
yy

## # A tibble: 3 × 4
## # Groups:   Name [3]
##   Name          `Jessore, Bangladesh` `Metaponto, Italy` `Saskatoon, Canada`
##   <chr>                         <dbl>              <dbl>               <dbl>
## 1 CDC Maxim AGL                  86.7               134.                52.5
## 2 ILL 618 AGL                    79.3               138.                47  
## 3 Laird AGL                      76.8               137.                56.8

yy <- yy %>% gather(key = TraitName, value = Value, 2:4)
yy

## # A tibble: 9 × 3
## # Groups:   Name [3]
##   Name          TraitName           Value
##   <chr>         <chr>               <dbl>
## 1 CDC Maxim AGL Jessore, Bangladesh  86.7
## 2 ILL 618 AGL   Jessore, Bangladesh  79.3
## 3 Laird AGL     Jessore, Bangladesh  76.8
## 4 CDC Maxim AGL Metaponto, Italy    134. 
## 5 ILL 618 AGL   Metaponto, Italy    138. 
## 6 Laird AGL     Metaponto, Italy    137. 
## 7 CDC Maxim AGL Saskatoon, Canada    52.5
## 8 ILL 618 AGL   Saskatoon, Canada    47  
## 9 Laird AGL     Saskatoon, Canada    56.8

yy <- yy %>% spread(key = Name, value = Value)
yy

## # A tibble: 3 × 4
##   TraitName           `CDC Maxim AGL` `ILL 618 AGL` `Laird AGL`
##   <chr>                         <dbl>         <dbl>       <dbl>
## 1 Jessore, Bangladesh            86.7          79.3        76.8
## 2 Metaponto, Italy              134.          138.        137. 
## 3 Saskatoon, Canada              52.5          47          56.8

Base Plotting

We will start with some basic plotting using the base function plot()

Tutorial 1 - http://www.sthda.com/english/wiki/r-base-graphs
Tutorial 2 - https://bookdown.org/rdpeng/exdata/the-base-plotting-system-1.html

# A basic scatter plot
plot(x = xd$x8, y = xd$x9)

# Adjust color and shape of the points
plot(x = xd$x8, y = xd$x9, col = "darkred", pch = 0)

plot(x = xd$x8, y = xd$x9, col = xd$x4, pch = xd$x4)

# Adjust plot type 
plot(x = xd$x8, y = xd$x9, type = "line")

# Adjust linetype
plot(x = xd$x8, y = xd$x9, type = "line", lty = 2)

# Plot lines and points
plot(x = xd$x8, y = xd$x9, type = "both")

Now lets create some random and normally distributed data to make some more complicated plots

# 100 random uniformly distributed numbers ranging from 0 - 100
ru <- runif(100, min = 0, max = 100)
ru

##   [1] 11.4774092 99.6930662 94.3386291 28.2322077 41.1497201 75.0636257 87.1810594  4.3885203 30.8239332 59.8877997 81.7021102 62.1293188 98.4087639 29.9129473
##  [15] 40.4226257  6.2956625 84.6524433 55.2827880  1.8029573  7.7032479 44.2159586 15.8137596 23.0253832 62.6790643 46.4396216 94.2135896 28.2756518 20.6137891
##  [29] 90.9930505 30.4268894 36.9505006 66.1485448  9.4613670  6.3122589 25.7070156 76.4625847 75.8906111 88.0586323 17.8289938 42.6745702 67.7728359 43.4543828
##  [43] 66.7309029  6.8202587 72.8632192 72.4530363 74.4666994 63.8717757 69.3448196 76.4272831 16.9144090  3.5549694 35.2302123 91.9529723 68.5591195 40.7943760
##  [57]  3.5757276 91.3884381 79.8780981 14.3903189 97.6200584 11.5057766 80.1164689 75.3482375 99.0187495  1.2653464 35.1450092  9.4775777 60.1590702 93.2091304
##  [71] 18.1655565 17.3291987 32.7613849 78.8317226 36.6737725 79.1353979 26.4033555 16.3697435 21.5052444 15.0528142 75.4184722 90.7473477 50.0949202 49.8911133
##  [85] 11.0010894  0.3113194 53.1685207 69.6255169  2.3339489 53.8934770 63.7536072 38.1956949 92.0105250  2.1804892 44.7814452 61.9136446 96.9520475  9.3958915
##  [99] 70.6558431 46.1295786

plot(x = ru)

order(ru)

##   [1]  86  66  19  94  89  52  57   8  16  34  44  20  98  33  68  85   1  62  60  80  22  78  51  72  39  71  28  79  23  35  77   4  27  14  30   9  73  67  53
##  [40]  75  31  92  15  56   5  40  42  21  95 100  25  84  83  87  90  18  10  69  96  12  24  91  48  32  43  41  55  49  88  99  46  45  47   6  64  81  37  50
##  [79]  36  74  76  59  63  11  17   7  38  82  29  58  54  93  70  26   3  97  61  13  65   2

ru<- ru[order(ru)]
ru

##   [1]  0.3113194  1.2653464  1.8029573  2.1804892  2.3339489  3.5549694  3.5757276  4.3885203  6.2956625  6.3122589  6.8202587  7.7032479  9.3958915  9.4613670
##  [15]  9.4775777 11.0010894 11.4774092 11.5057766 14.3903189 15.0528142 15.8137596 16.3697435 16.9144090 17.3291987 17.8289938 18.1655565 20.6137891 21.5052444
##  [29] 23.0253832 25.7070156 26.4033555 28.2322077 28.2756518 29.9129473 30.4268894 30.8239332 32.7613849 35.1450092 35.2302123 36.6737725 36.9505006 38.1956949
##  [43] 40.4226257 40.7943760 41.1497201 42.6745702 43.4543828 44.2159586 44.7814452 46.1295786 46.4396216 49.8911133 50.0949202 53.1685207 53.8934770 55.2827880
##  [57] 59.8877997 60.1590702 61.9136446 62.1293188 62.6790643 63.7536072 63.8717757 66.1485448 66.7309029 67.7728359 68.5591195 69.3448196 69.6255169 70.6558431
##  [71] 72.4530363 72.8632192 74.4666994 75.0636257 75.3482375 75.4184722 75.8906111 76.4272831 76.4625847 78.8317226 79.1353979 79.8780981 80.1164689 81.7021102
##  [85] 84.6524433 87.1810594 88.0586323 90.7473477 90.9930505 91.3884381 91.9529723 92.0105250 93.2091304 94.2135896 94.3386291 96.9520475 97.6200584 98.4087639
##  [99] 99.0187495 99.6930662

plot(x = ru)

# 100 normally distributed numbers with a mean of 50 and sd of 10
nd <- rnorm(100, mean = 50, sd = 10)
nd

##   [1] 40.75739 54.24196 48.64606 46.40886 44.64741 54.59073 44.94248 52.61164 45.92314 47.40846 60.41090 47.39450 44.45220 37.49985 53.02428 53.83295 53.17317
##  [18] 50.18701 53.26905 53.27853 46.14559 34.41798 48.64311 67.89708 41.72534 56.96592 34.97715 40.34337 52.14500 37.02234 45.09360 42.66176 66.04809 53.67219
##  [35] 42.33778 41.95477 44.44372 38.71810 54.08354 51.38754 26.24098 39.42727 37.33930 44.27166 33.23560 27.66529 42.99582 44.98973 39.85699 51.73621 57.26371
##  [52] 44.58631 61.38412 45.59913 51.78844 77.27606 43.71238 52.08743 38.60202 50.31215 55.31387 65.77489 43.28712 54.47814 42.52779 62.77050 46.49981 46.02055
##  [69] 47.97159 50.99933 56.77557 53.37508 41.88308 56.93955 31.05404 49.72329 61.50085 47.85985 46.74699 42.83283 35.62454 38.47647 48.29208 59.33698 44.97197
##  [86] 54.70477 47.37777 39.96359 42.26773 60.27863 56.26100 54.05178 55.35704 56.13248 41.46383 46.86110 36.58781 38.19285 37.47779 38.28569

nd <- nd[order(nd)]
nd

##   [1] 26.24098 27.66529 31.05404 33.23560 34.41798 34.97715 35.62454 36.58781 37.02234 37.33930 37.47779 37.49985 38.19285 38.28569 38.47647 38.60202 38.71810
##  [18] 39.42727 39.85699 39.96359 40.34337 40.75739 41.46383 41.72534 41.88308 41.95477 42.26773 42.33778 42.52779 42.66176 42.83283 42.99582 43.28712 43.71238
##  [35] 44.27166 44.44372 44.45220 44.58631 44.64741 44.94248 44.97197 44.98973 45.09360 45.59913 45.92314 46.02055 46.14559 46.40886 46.49981 46.74699 46.86110
##  [52] 47.37777 47.39450 47.40846 47.85985 47.97159 48.29208 48.64311 48.64606 49.72329 50.18701 50.31215 50.99933 51.38754 51.73621 51.78844 52.08743 52.14500
##  [69] 52.61164 53.02428 53.17317 53.26905 53.27853 53.37508 53.67219 53.83295 54.05178 54.08354 54.24196 54.47814 54.59073 54.70477 55.31387 55.35704 56.13248
##  [86] 56.26100 56.77557 56.93955 56.96592 57.26371 59.33698 60.27863 60.41090 61.38412 61.50085 62.77050 65.77489 66.04809 67.89708 77.27606

plot(x = nd)

hist(x = nd)

hist(nd, breaks = 20, col = "darkgreen")

plot(x = density(nd))

boxplot(x = nd)

boxplot(x = nd, horizontal = T)

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Lets be honest, the base plots are ugly! The ggplot2 package gives the user to create a better, more visually appealing plots. Additional packages such as ggbeeswarm and ggrepel also contain useful functions to add to the functionality of ggplot2.

ggplot2 - https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/
Tutorial 1 - http://r-statistics.co/ggplot2-Tutorial-With-R.html
Tutorial 2 - https://www.statsandr.com/blog/graphics-in-r-with-ggplot2/
The R Graph Gallery - https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/ggplot2-package.html

library(ggplot2)
mp <- ggplot(xd, aes(x = x8, y = x9))
mp + geom_point()

mp + geom_point(aes(color = x3, shape = x3), size = 4)

mp + geom_line(size = 2)

mp + geom_line(aes(color = x3), size = 2)

mp + geom_smooth(method = "loess")

mp + geom_smooth(method = "lm")

xx <- data.frame(data = c(rnorm(50, mean = 40, sd = 10),
                          rnorm(50, mean = 60, sd = 5)),
                 group = factor(rep(1:2, each = 50)),
                 label = c("Label1", rep(NA, 49), "Label2", rep(NA, 49)))
mp <- ggplot(xx, aes(x = data, fill = group))
mp + geom_histogram(color = "black")

mp + geom_histogram(color = "black", position = "dodge")

mp1 <- mp + geom_histogram(color = "black") + facet_grid(group~.)
mp1

mp + geom_density(alpha = 0.5)

mp <- ggplot(xx, aes(x = group, y = data, fill = group))
mp + geom_boxplot(color = "black")

mp + geom_boxplot() + geom_point()

mp + geom_violin() + geom_boxplot(width = 0.1, fill = "white")

library(ggbeeswarm)
mp + geom_quasirandom()

mp + geom_quasirandom(aes(shape = group))

mp2 <- mp + geom_violin() + 
  geom_boxplot(width = 0.1, fill = "white") +
  geom_beeswarm(alpha = 0.5)
library(ggrepel)
mp2 + geom_text_repel(aes(label = label), nudge_x = 0.4)

library(ggpubr)
ggarrange(mp1, mp2, ncol = 2, widths = c(2,1),
          common.legend = T, legend = "bottom")

Statistics

Handbook of Biological Statistics - http://biostathandbook.com/
R Companion for ^ - https://rcompanion.org/rcompanion/a_02.html

# Prep data
lev_Loc  <- c("Saskatoon, Canada", "Jessore, Bangladesh", "Metaponto, Italy")
lev_Name <- c("ILL 618 AGL", "CDC Maxim AGL", "Laird AGL")
dd <- read_xlsx("data_r_tutorial.xlsx", sheet = "Data") %>%
  mutate(Location = factor(Location, levels = lev_Loc),
         Name = factor(Name, levels = lev_Name))
xx <- dd %>%
  group_by(Name, Location) %>%
  summarise(Mean_DTF = mean(DTF))
xx %>% spread(Location, Mean_DTF)

## # A tibble: 3 × 4
## # Groups:   Name [3]
##   Name          `Saskatoon, Canada` `Jessore, Bangladesh` `Metaponto, Italy`
##   <fct>                       <dbl>                 <dbl>              <dbl>
## 1 ILL 618 AGL                  47                    79.3               138.
## 2 CDC Maxim AGL                52.5                  86.7               134.
## 3 Laird AGL                    56.8                  76.8               137.

# Plot
mp1 <- ggplot(dd, aes(x = Location, y = DTF, color = Name, shape = Name)) +
  geom_point(size = 2, alpha = 0.7, position = position_dodge(width=0.5))
mp2 <- ggplot(xx, aes(x = Location, y = Mean_DTF, 
                      color = Name, group = Name, shape = Name)) +
  geom_point(size = 2.5, alpha = 0.7) + 
  geom_line(size = 1, alpha = 0.7) +
  theme(legend.position = "top")
ggarrange(mp1, mp2, ncol = 2, common.legend = T, legend = "top")

From first glace, it is clear there are differences between genotypes, locations, and genotype x environment (GxE) interactions. Now let’s do a few statistical tests.

summary(aov(DTF ~ Name * Location, data = dd))

##               Df Sum Sq Mean Sq  F value   Pr(>F)    
## Name           2     88      44    3.476   0.0395 *  
## Location       2  65863   32931 2598.336  < 2e-16 ***
## Name:Location  4    560     140   11.044 2.52e-06 ***
## Residuals     45    570      13                      
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

As expected, an ANOVA shows statistical significance for genotype (p-value = 0.0395), Location (p-value < 2e-16) and GxE interactions (p-value < 2.52e-06). However, all this tells us is that one genotype is different from the rest, one location is different from the others and that there is GxE interactions. If we want to be more specific, would need to do some multiple comparison tests.

If we only have two things to compare, we could do a t-test.

xx <- dd %>% 
  filter(Location %in% c("Saskatoon, Canada", "Jessore, Bangladesh")) %>%
  spread(Location, DTF)
t.test(x = xx$`Saskatoon, Canada`, y = xx$`Jessore, Bangladesh`)

## 
##  Welch Two Sample t-test
## 
## data:  xx$`Saskatoon, Canada` and xx$`Jessore, Bangladesh`
## t = -17.521, df = 32.701, p-value < 2.2e-16
## alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
## 95 percent confidence interval:
##  -32.18265 -25.48402
## sample estimates:
## mean of x mean of y 
##  52.11111  80.94444

DTF in Saskatoon, Canada is significantly different (p-value < 2.2e-16) from DTF in Jessore, Bangladesh.

xx <- dd %>% 
  filter(Name %in% c("ILL 618 AGL", "Laird AGL"),
         Location == "Metaponto, Italy") %>%
  spread(Name, DTF)
t.test(x = xx$`ILL 618 AGL`, y = xx$`Laird AGL`)

## 
##  Welch Two Sample t-test
## 
## data:  xx$`ILL 618 AGL` and xx$`Laird AGL`
## t = 0.38008, df = 8.0564, p-value = 0.7137
## alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
## 95 percent confidence interval:
##  -5.059739  7.059739
## sample estimates:
## mean of x mean of y 
##  137.8333  136.8333

DTF between ILL 618 AGL and Laird AGL are not significantly different (p-value = 0.7137) in Metaponto, Italy.

pch Plot

xx <- data.frame(x = rep(1:6, times = 5, length.out = 26),
                 y = rep(5:1, each = 6, length.out = 26),
                 pch = 0:25)
mp <- ggplot(xx, aes(x = x, y = y, shape = as.factor(pch))) +
  geom_point(color = "darkred", fill = "darkblue", size = 5) +
  geom_text(aes(label = pch), nudge_x = -0.25) +
  scale_shape_manual(values = xx$pch) +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = 6:1) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 6:1) +
  theme_void() +
  theme(legend.position = "none",
        plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5),
        plot.subtitle = element_text(hjust = 0.5),
        axis.text = element_blank(),
        axis.ticks = element_blank()) +
  labs(title = "Plot symbols in R (pch)",
       subtitle = "color = \"darkred\", fill = \"darkblue\"",
       x = NULL, y = NULL)
ggsave("pch.png", mp, width = 4.5, height = 3, bg = "white")

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